Question 1

Ulama were

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A)  armored warriors. 
B)  residents of Songhay's capital. 
C)  Muslim scholars. 
D)  Malian religious teachers. 
E)  Arab traders.

Question 2

How do the individual African cultures serve as models for diversity? Choose several for comparison and contrast.

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Question 3

By the 13th century, the city-states along Africa's east coast had become

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A)  Arab sultanates ruled directly from Arabia. 
B)  successful regional trading centers. 
C)  sophisticated commercial nation-states. 
D)  overpopulated and less profitable. 
E)  closely tied through trade with Great Zimbabwe.

Question 4

Historians know less than they would like about the kingdom of Kush because

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A)  Europeans destroyed much of that civilization's ancient culture. 
B)  defeat by the Egyptians led to a decline in record-keeping. 
C)  the Kushites had no written language. 
D)  the Kushite script remains un-deciphered. 
E)  the Kushites destroyed many of their records before abandoning their homeland for a move to the south.

Question 5

The early conclusions reached by Europeans who made contact with Africans

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A)  led to an appreciation for Sudanese culture. 
B)  intimidated them. 
C)  laid the foundations for European racism. 
D)  had no appreciable impact. 
E)  caused them to resist colonizing there.

Question 6

One of the most significant cultural aspects accepted in early Africa but ended by the coming of Islam was

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A)  matrilineal descent. 
B)  patrilineal descent. 
C)  the clan as the primary social unit. 
D)  women's rights of inheritance. 
E)  male polygamy.

Question 7

The peoples of early Africa may most accurately be described as

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A)  diminutive. 
B)  primitive. 
C)  artistic. 
D)  varied. 
E)  violent.

Question 8

The term ____________________ describes native African religion.

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The answer of The term ____________________ describes native African religion....

Question 9

The kingdom of Mali is most noted for

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A)  the strong Muslim group that founded the empire. 
B)  its great wealth that was based on gold. 
C)  its adoption of a very strict form of Islam. 
D)  its takeover of Ghana's vast gold holdings. 
E)  its strong reliance on taxes imposed on traders traveling through the kingdom.

Question 10

Slavery in pre-15th century Africa was

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A)  illegal. 
B)  introduced by Europeans. 
C)  practiced only by Arabs. 
D)  commonplace. 
E)  restricted to the use of farm labor.

Question 11

When climatic change began to create the Sahara Desert as we know it today,

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A)  farmers moved south into the Niger River valley where they could continue familiar ways. 
B)  Saharan herders migrated eastward, where they found lands conducive to their way of life. 
C)  many of the pastoral herders became nomadic, using the scant resources of the desert to eke out a living. 
D)  agriculture spread south into the rain forests, where cereals began to be grown for the first time. 
E)  the cultivation of millet and rice was carried into both the Niger and Nile River valleys by those forced to migrate.

Question 12

The kingdom of Axum, the modern-day Ethiopia, was unusual in Africa, in that its people

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A)  were quick converts to Islam. 
B)  became heavily involved with Arab traders by the 7th century. 
C)  believed that their kings were tied to biblical lines of descent. 
D)  maintained the strongest presence along the Nile through the 12th century. 
E)  managed to convert their Egyptian neighbors to Christianity.

Question 13

One could safely assume that Ghanian merchants who willingly converted to Islam became

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A)  confused about the concept of monotheism. 
B)  well-known in Arabia. 
C)  feared by nature worshippers. 
D)  outcasts in their societies. 
E)  much more economically successful.

Question 14

The duty of village elders in African societies was to

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A)  oversee all decision-making in the village. 
B)  perform marriages. 
C)  settle disputes. 
D)  make laws. 
E)  lead wars when necessary.

Question 15

Ghana and Mali earned some of their income from taxes they imposed on Saharan traders in three vital commodities: ____________________, ____________________, and ____________________.

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The answer of Ghana and Mali earned some of their...

Question 16

Africa's first links to international trade and commerce came through

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A)  coastal Swahili. 
B)  the Indian Ocean. 
C)  the Sudan. 
D)  Great Zimbabwe. 
E)  the Nile valley.

Question 17

Africa consists of five geographic zones: the ____________________ and ____________________ coasts; the ____________________; ____________________; the ____________________ ____________________; and the ____________________.

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The answer of Africa consists of five geographic zones: the...

Question 18

It would be most accurate to describe the kingdom of Kush as

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A)  a major industrial center based on silver. 
B)  a kingdom influenced and impacted by the Egyptians, the Assyrians, and finally, Africa as a whole. 
C)  strongest in the eighth century B.C.E. 
D)  the only empire strong enough to defeat that of Axum. 
E)  having its major trading strength in iron and ivory.

Question 19

The Bantus moved into eastern and central Africa and absorbed the people they met there through

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A)  advanced agricultural methods. 
B)  help from the Arabs. 
C)  the use of iron weaponry. 
D)  guns bought from Europeans. 
E)  superior use of horses.

Question 20

The ancient civilized center of Southern Africa, whose ruins were only discovered in 1871, is ____________________ ____________________.

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Exam 12: Africa From Kush to the Fifteenth Century